Mamluks and Ottomans
Subtitle: studies in honour of Michael Winter
By: edited by David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon.
Contributors: Winter, Michael, 1934-; Ayalon, Ami.; Wasserstein, David.
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history -- 5; RoutledgeCurzon studies in Middle Eastern history -- 5.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780415372787
Subjects: Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517.; Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882.; Islamic Empire -- History -- 1258-1517.; Middle East -- History -- 1517-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sufism and sanctity : the genesis of the wali Allah in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron / Daphna Ephrat; title: The prince who favored the desert : fragmentary biography of al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344) / Joseph Drory; title: Al-Nabi Musa : an Ottoman festival (mawsim) resurrected? / Amnon Cohen; title: Some remarks on the inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa / Reuven Amitai; title: Sign of the times : reusing the past in Baybars's architecture in Palestine / Hanna Taragan; title: A fourteenth-century Jerusalem court record of a divorce hearing : a case study / Donald P. Little; title: The hoax of the miraculous speaking wall : criminal investigation in Mamluk Cairo / Carl F. Petry; title: Awlad al-nas in the Mamluk army during the Bahri period / Amalia Levanoni; title: Popular Sufi sermons in late Mamluk Egypt / Boaz Shoshan; title: Physicians in Mamluk and Ottoman courts / Miri Shefer; title: Evliya Çelebi on imarets / Amy Singer; title: Great fire in the metropolis : the case of the Istanbul conflagration of 1569 and its description by Marcantonio Barbaro / Minna Rozen and Benjamin Arbel; title: Futuh-i Haramayn : sixteenth-century illustrations of the Hajj route / Rachel Milstein; title: The forgotten province : a prelude to the Ottoman era in Yemen / Jane Hathaway; title: Islam in the Sudan under the Funj and the Ottomans / Gabriel Warburg; title: Observations on some religious institutions in Damiette and Faraskur in the eighteenth century / Daniel Crecelius; title: The expropriation of the Pasha's peasants / Ursula Wokoeck.